ofrenda

Borrowed from Spanish ofrenda.

ofrenda (plural ofrendas)

1. A shrine of offerings to one's ancestors set up on the Day of the Dead.
   • 1998, Juanita Garciagodoy, Digging the Days of the Dead, University Press of Colorado, page 95,

     Other marginalized groups draw attention to their cause through large public ofrendas that usually include pictorial or sculptural and sometimes literary calaveras.

   • 2001, Karen Mary Davalos, Exhibiting Mestizaje, University of New Mexico Press, page 145,

     This show featured installations, painting, and sculptures, all of which are recast as ofrendas to the dead.

• Day of the Dead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin offerenda, from Latin offerendus. Compare French offrande, Catalan ofrena, Portuguese oferenda.

• IPA^(key): /oˈfɾenda/ [oˈfɾẽn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -enda
• Syllabification: o‧fren‧da

ofrenda f (plural ofrendas)

1. offering, sacrifice

• ofrendar
• ofrecer

ofrenda

1. inflection of ofrendar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “ofrenda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014